you know, talking about that vacuum again, the one thing we did not have clearly in benghazi, eric bolling and i fought about it on this couch, we had no military assets to rescue our people. we had nothing in place. we didn't have any drones armed with missiles that could have intervened in libya, the country on the right. algeria, the gas plant that was hit was right on the algerian-libyan border. we had nothing there. so now in niger, a country just below algeria, we have, gretchen as you point out, now negotiated a deal where we can have our drones based and from that base in the northwest africa there, we can keep our eyes on this emerging crisis with the remnants of al-qaeda. they're like a mcdonald's now. they're franchise. you close one down, they'll open one across the street. that's what they've done in that region of africa. we've got to crack down. >> steve: brian? >> brian: i just want to weigh in on this. when it comes to al-qaeda, the investigation in benghazi, the whole reason why it's important now with the election over, and i think the motivation should be very clear, it